Ainy Hafeez

2.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
25 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Ainy Hafeez is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Ainy Hafeez has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 11 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 7 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Ainy Hafeez's work include Biodiesel Production and Applications (8 papers), Plasma Applications and Diagnostics (5 papers) and Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (4 papers). Ainy Hafeez is often cited by papers focused on Biodiesel Production and Applications (8 papers), Plasma Applications and Diagnostics (5 papers) and Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (4 papers). Ainy Hafeez collaborates with scholars based in Pakistan, United Kingdom and Qatar. Ainy Hafeez's co-authors include Fahad Rehman, Fahed Javed, Tahir Fazal, Sumeer Shafique, Mohammad Younas, Fahad Javed, Naim Rashid, Muhammad Saif Ur Rehman, Zufishan Shamair and William Zimmerman and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Hazardous Materials, Journal of Cleaner Production and Chemosphere.

In The Last Decade

Ainy Hafeez

25 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

An Overview of Hydrogen Production: Current Status, Potential, and Challenges

2022 510 citations Mohammad Younas, Sumeer Shafique et al. Fuel profile →
Current developments in esterification reaction: A review on process and parameters

2021 208 citations Fahed Javed, Zufishan Shamair et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ainy Hafeez Pakistan	19	693	496	485	282	263	25	1.7k
Fahad Rehman Pakistan	22	954 1.4×	648 1.3×	658 1.4×	430 1.5×	343 1.3×	52	2.3k
Azrina Abd Aziz Malaysia	24	610 0.9×	415 0.8×	665 1.4×	237 0.8×	333 1.3×	81	1.7k
Hamad AlMohamadi Saudi Arabia	21	330 0.5×	338 0.7×	328 0.7×	229 0.8×	229 0.9×	105	1.4k
Masita Mohammad Malaysia	24	540 0.8×	804 1.6×	592 1.2×	462 1.6×	658 2.5×	77	2.8k
K.P. Gopinath India	19	659 1.0×	532 1.1×	543 1.1×	167 0.6×	189 0.7×	36	1.8k
Sumeer Shafique Pakistan	17	649 0.9×	218 0.4×	869 1.8×	270 1.0×	549 2.1×	22	1.7k
Alberto Álvarez-Gallegos Mexico	20	619 0.9×	336 0.7×	380 0.8×	352 1.2×	186 0.7×	65	1.5k
Rabia Liaquat Pakistan	24	297 0.4×	627 1.3×	427 0.9×	182 0.6×	370 1.4×	68	1.7k
Salman Masoudi Soltani United Kingdom	23	219 0.3×	496 1.0×	450 0.9×	326 1.2×	680 2.6×	71	1.8k
Yasir Abbas China	25	400 0.6×	318 0.6×	542 1.1×	645 2.3×	151 0.6×	66	2.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ainy Hafeez

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Javed, Fahed, Naim Rashid, Tahir Fazal, Ainy Hafeez, & Fahad Rehman. (2023). Integration of Real Industrial Wastewater Streams to Enhance Chlorella vulgaris Growth: Nutrient Sequestration and Biomass Production. Water Air & Soil Pollution. 234(3). 9 indexed citations

Hafeez, Ainy, Fahad Javed, Tahir Fazal, et al.. (2023). Intensification of esterification reaction microbubble mediated reactive distillation. Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification. 191. 109435–109435. 5 indexed citations

Javed, Fahed, Fahad Rehman, Asad U. Khan, et al.. (2022). Real textile industrial wastewater treatment and biodiesel production using microalgae. Biomass and Bioenergy. 165. 106559–106559. 52 indexed citations

Younas, Mohammad, Sumeer Shafique, Abrar Faisal, et al.. (2022). Hydrogen Production through Water Vapors using Optimized Corona-DBD Hybrid Plasma Micro-Reactor. Fuel. 331. 125838–125838. 19 indexed citations

Younas, Mohammad, Sumeer Shafique, Ainy Hafeez, Fahad Javed, & Fahad Rehman. (2022). An Overview of Hydrogen Production: Current Status, Potential, and Challenges. Fuel. 316. 123317–123317. 510 indexed citations breakdown →

Javed, Fahed, William Zimmerman, Tahir Fazal, et al.. (2022). Green synthesis of biodiesel from microalgae cultivated in industrial wastewater via microbubble induced esterification using bio-MOF-based heterogeneous catalyst. Process Safety and Environmental Protection. 189. 707–720. 30 indexed citations

Javed, Fahed, Zufishan Shamair, Ainy Hafeez, et al.. (2021). Conversion of poultry-fat waste to a sustainable feedstock for biodiesel production via microbubble injection of reagent vapor. Journal of Cleaner Production. 311. 127525–127525. 21 indexed citations

Fazal, Tahir, Muhammad Saif Ur Rehman, Fahed Javed, et al.. (2021). Integrating bioremediation of textile wastewater with biodiesel production using microalgae (Chlorella vulgaris). Chemosphere. 281. 130758–130758. 90 indexed citations

Hafeez, Ainy, et al.. (2021). Plasma-based ozonolysis of lignin waste materials for the production of value-added chemicals. Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery. 13(7). 5903–5919. 10 indexed citations

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Hafeez, Ainy, Nasir Shezad, Fahed Javed, et al.. (2021). Developing multiplexed plasma micro-reactor for ozone intensification and wastewater treatment. Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification. 162. 108337–108337. 18 indexed citations

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Hafeez, Ainy, Fahed Javed, Tahir Fazal, et al.. (2020). Intensification of ozone generation and degradation of azo dye in non-thermal hybrid corona-DBD plasma micro-reactor. Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification. 159. 108205–108205. 38 indexed citations

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Ali, Shahzad, Tahir Fazal, Fahed Javed, et al.. (2020). Investigating biodiesel production strategies as a sustainable energy resource for Pakistan. Journal of Cleaner Production. 259. 120729–120729. 32 indexed citations

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Shehzad, Nasir, Muhammad Nadeem Zafar, Muhammad Ashfaq, et al.. (2020). Development of AgFeO2/rGO/TiO2 Ternary Composite Photocatalysts for Enhanced Photocatalytic Dye Decolorization. Crystals. 10(10). 923–923. 26 indexed citations

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Javed, Fahed, Muhammad Aslam, Naim Rashid, et al.. (2019). Microalgae-based biofuels, resource recovery and wastewater treatment: A pathway towards sustainable biorefinery. Fuel. 255. 115826–115826. 147 indexed citations

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Javed, Fahed, Zufishan Shamair, Shahzad Ali, et al.. (2019). “Pushing and pulling” the equilibrium through bubble mediated reactive separation for ethyl acetate production. Reaction Chemistry & Engineering. 4(4). 705–714. 22 indexed citations

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Ahmad, Naveed, Fahed Javed, Shahzad Ali, et al.. (2019). Biodiesel production intensification through microbubble mediated esterification. Fuel. 253. 25–31. 39 indexed citations

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Fazal, Tahir, Abdul Razzaq, Fahed Javed, et al.. (2019). Integrating adsorption and photocatalysis: A cost effective strategy for textile wastewater treatment using hybrid biochar-TiO2 composite. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 390. 121623–121623. 226 indexed citations

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Fazal, Tahir, Muhammad Saif Ur Rehman, Azeem Mushtaq, et al.. (2019). Simultaneous production of bioelectricity and biogas from chicken droppings and dairy industry wastewater employing bioelectrochemical system. Fuel. 256. 115902–115902. 14 indexed citations

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Hafeez, Ainy, Syed Ali Ammar Taqvi, Tahir Fazal, et al.. (2019). Optimization on cleaner intensification of ozone production using Artificial Neural Network and Response Surface Methodology: Parametric and comparative study. Journal of Cleaner Production. 252. 119833–119833. 89 indexed citations

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Fazal, Tahir, Azeem Mushtaq, Ainy Hafeez, et al.. (2019). Macroalgae and coal-based biochar as a sustainable bioresource reuse for treatment of textile wastewater. Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery. 11(5). 1491–1506. 38 indexed citations

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